Bhupinder Hooda sponsored Phogat's protest in Jantar Mantar: Haryana Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta
Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia joining the Congress party on Friday, Haryana Assembly Speaker and BJP leader Gian Chand Gupta alleged that the former Haryana Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda sponsored the «Vinesh Phogat's protest» at Jantar Mantar and that such things should not happen in sports.
«The way Bhupinder Singh Hooda sponsored Vinesh Phogat's protest in Jantar Mantar and she was given such special treatment, and what the former WFI president said about her getting a special recommendation to get promoted, in sports, such things must not happen,» Gupta said on Saturday.
He further stated that Congress has fully exposed itself by indulging in politics with athletes by fielding Phogat from the Julana constituency for the upcoming Haryana polls.
«And by fielding Vinesh Phogat (for Haryana Polls), Congress has been fully exposed since they fielded Vinesh Phogat; they can even play politics with athletes. They can use athletes for political advantage and they did it,» he added.
Brij Bhushan reacts to Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat joining Congress, says party will regret it
Earlier on Saturday, former WFI president and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh said the joining of Phogat and Punia to the Congress party proves that the entire wrestlers' movement was a «conspiracy» against him and the Congress party was behind it.
Singh further stated that just when the wrestler's protest started at Jantar Mantar in January last year, he had claimed
